VanLiere Symposium Posters
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The VanLiere Symposium is an event held every spring when the Psychology Department majors present posters of their their Senior Individualized Projects (SIPs) to the members of the campus, families and guests. The VanLiere Symposium honors the late Donald VanLiere who was the first experimental psychologist at Kalamazoo College. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.
The VanLiere Symposium was not held in 2011.
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Recent Submissions
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A Working Model of Group Therapeutic Songwriting for Treating Children Survivors of Childhood Sexual Assault
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Childhood Sexual Abuse is a key risk factor for depression & emotional dysregulation. Victims have trouble describing trauma with words. Music therapy offers child a way out of silence. Songwriting, a popular method in ... -
ASAP : Adolescent Sexual Abuse Prevention A Program Designed for Kalamazoo County
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)All children deserve to feel safe, but unfortunately not all do. In order to keep more children in Kalamazoo County safe, it is recommended that the Kalamazoo County Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Council (KCAN) implement ... -
Occupational Stress and Burnout Syndrome Among Nursing Professionals: a Proposed Study Addressing Compromised States of Mental Health and Improving Patient Outcomes
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)The following proposed study will examine the effects of therapeutic intervention on mental and physical health states of practicing nurses. Nurses are particularly susceptible to increased occupational stress, which can ... -
Oasis: A Proposed Study and Review of Suicide Prevention Programs Amongst Young People
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people, ages 15-24, in the United States (Drapeau & McIntosh, 2015). Suicide prevention techniques and programs are important for young people because they are ... -
The Effects of Demonstrating Mental and Physical Stability in Sport Performances
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)To pinpoint how athletes become successful – reaching their goals – an athlete needs the willingness, perseverance, and commitment to go through a process that allows one to achieve their team and individual goals (De ... -
Personality Correlations Between Mothers and their Biological Children
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Adoption and twin studies such as Horn, Loehlin, and Willerman (1979) and Bergeman et al. (1993) suggest that genetics has the most influence on the formation of the personality, while the environment has little to no ... -
Neuromarketing: A Future Step In Market Research
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)In order to market a product, service, or build a brand name successfully, there must be an accurate understanding of the consumer’s desires for efficient marketing. For this reason, companies greatly depend on the utilization ... -
Exploratory Factor Analysis for the Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support in a Spanish Sample
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Social support is essential to an individual’s overall mental and physical health. Social support is measured with the MSPSS (Zimet et al., 1988). In the current study the MSPSS was translated into Spanish and administered ... -
Land Banks and Alleviating the Negative Effects of Blight
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Land banks can strategically remove blight by working in partnership with local organizations who wish to invest, develop, and promote the wellbeing of the community (Alexander 2011; Dewar 2006). Land banks can indirectly ... -
The Long Term Impact Of Growing Up In A Jewish Summer Camp: A Proposed Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)The proposed study examines the many relationships between religion, namely Judaism, and a variety of factors including psychosocial development, interpersonal relationships, and personal identity formation. The research ... -
A Justification for the creation of a new Touch-screen Vision Testing Assay
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)The use of touch-screen based technology in lab testing is a long established method. Previous research has shown that learning method is important for a good assay. Comparison of rat strains is also important when validating ... -
Music Videos and Gender Beliefs: How Black Males Then View Black Females
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)CNN provided that 73 percent of Black births are “nonmarital” and that 67 percent of those Black children live in a household where the father does not live with them. This is the reason why Black males watch more television ... -
The Influence of Parental Messages about Sexual Orientation on LGBT Sexual Affect and Sexual Experience
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)More frequent and positive parent-adolescent communication about sexuality has been associated with fewer random sexual partners and engaging in sexual intercourse less often and at a later age (Miller, Forehand, & Kotchik, ... -
Efficacy of Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Sensory Integration Therapy in the Clinic and Home-Based Setting for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Infants who were preterm or low birth weight are at high-risk for cognitive and motor developmental dysfunctions such as sensory processing disorder (SPD). Children most likely to have SPD also have autism, which has become ... -
The Effects of Athletic Participation on Student-Athletes’ Academic Success: A Proposed Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Financial cutbacks in academia has lead to discussion about which school programs should see reduced funding, or dissolve altogether. Athletic funding usually is one the first areas brought into consideration. It is ... -
An Overview of Treatments for Rape and Sexual Assault Survivors: A Literature Review
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Rape and sexual assault are severe crimes that can lead to mental illnesses such as PTSD, depression, and anxiety. In recent years, there has been an increase in attention towards colleges and universities, where these ... -
Differences In Oral Narrative Scores of African-American and Caucasian Children
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Examining possible racial differences between African American children and Caucasian children in Oral Narrative Assessment scores Oral narrative skills are highly predictive of literary skills which AA children have ... -
The Effects of Diurnal Variation in Testosterone on Masculinity and Attractiveness Ratings
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Late follicular phase (fertile phase of the menstrual cycle) women are more likely to prefer faces of men that are deemed as more masculine than during the other phases (Welling et al., 2007). Welling et al. (2008) found ... -
Visual Deficiencies due to Parkinson’s Disease: A Potential Biomarker
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Vision deficiency has been reported in several cases of PD, characterized by dysfunction in acuity/contrast, color discrimination, and morphological changes to the retina/fovea. Older adults with and without PD were recruited ... -
Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions on Injury Rehabilitation in a Proposed Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)Until recently the use of psychological interventions to assist with injury rehabilitation was not very common due to a lack of knowledge. Now that these practices are gaining more support the key is to get the backing of ...